On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Roman Divacky wrote: > hi > > I made a patch that updates our in-tree m4 to the version from OpenBSD. > Their version contains some gnu extensions and generally is modernized > and rewritten. > > The patch (you have to in src/usr.bin/m4 for it to apply): > > > http://vlakno.cz/~rdivacky/m4.patch > > > I added their ohash* implementation to the m4 subdir as it uses it. I > am not sure this is the correct way but it works for now. > > So the question is - do we want this at all? If so, is this the way we > want it? > > I am open to all comments, thank you! The only comment I have at this point is that this is a huge update to a somewhat fragile tool. It'll need a lot of testing before it should be comitted this way; not sure how many ports use this rather than gm4 or if they could be switched over after that. I'd at least ask portmgr for an exp run. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb It will not break if you know what you are doing.Received on Fri Oct 30 2009 - 09:30:07 UTC
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